How to access

click on the check box for the user note and click on the Edit button.

To create a new user note,

select Users → User Notes → Add User Note from the menu or

click on the New button in the User Manager: User Notes screen.

Description

User notes are pieces of information which can be assigned to registered users on your Joomla! site. These notes can contain for example comments about 'offending' or 'difficult' users etc.

In this screen you can create an user note or edit an user note. The 'editor' will be the chosen 'editor' for the user creating the note. Examples: TinyMCE - JCE - Codemirror

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Note Details

Subject. The subject of the user note.

ID. The selected user to which the user note belongs.

Category. The category to which the user note belongs.

Status. (Published/Unpublished/Archived/Trashed) The published status of the user note.

Review time. This is a time and date field you can use for tracking this user. For example, this could be the date of the user's next review or the date of the last review.

Version Note. Optional field to identify this version of the item in the item's Version History window.

Note. The actual text of the user note.

Toggle Editor. Turns on or off the the editor's description box WYSIWYG features to show HTML markup.

Toolbar

At the top left you will see the toolbar for a Edit Item or New Item

Notes (edit a note):

Save. Saves the menu item and stays in the current screen.

Save & Close. Saves the menu item and closes the current screen.

Save & New. Saves the menu item and keeps the editing screen open and ready to create another menu item.

Save as Copy. Saves your changes to a copy of the current menu item. Does not affect the current menu item. This toolbar icon is not shown if you are creating a new menu item.

Versions. Opens the Item Version History window to show any prior versions of this item. This allows you to view older versions of this item and, if desired, restore from an older version. See Version History for more information.

Cancel/Close. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.

Help. Opens this help screen.

Notes (add a note):

Save. Saves the menu item and stays in the current screen.

Save & Close. Saves the menu item and closes the current screen.

Save & New. Saves the menu item and keeps the editing screen open and ready to create another menu item.

Cancel/Close. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.

Help. Opens this help screen.

TinyMce Editor

TinyMCE is the default editor for both front-end and back-end users. TinyMCE is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor that allows users a familiar word-processing interface to use when editing Articles and other content. TinyMCE can be configured with three different sets of toolbar buttons: advanced, simple, and extended. This is set as an option in the Plugin Manager for the 'Editor - TinyMCE' plugin.

Advanced Toolbar

The advanced toolbar provides a three-row toolbar as shown below:

This is the default setting. The 3-row toolbar below provides many standard editing commands, as follows:

Top Row.

Buttons in the upper left allow you to make text bold, italic, underlined, or strikethrough. Next to that are buttons for align left, right, center, and full.

Styles. Caption and System Pagebreak styles can be set. Highlight the desired text and select the style. This will allow this text to be formatted based on CSS rules.

Second Row.

Insert/Edit Link. To insert or edit a link, select the linked text and press this button. A popup dialog displays that lets you enter details about the link.

Unlink. To remove a link, highlight the linked text and press this button.

Insert/Edit Anchor. An anchor is a bookmark inside an article that lets you link directly to that point in the article. To insert an anchor, move the cursor to the desired location within the article and click this button. A window will display. Enter the name of the Anchor and press Insert. A small anchor icon will show in the location of the anchor. You can edit the name of the anchor by clicking on it and pressing this button. You can delete the anchor just by selecting it and pressing the Delete key.

Insert/Edit Image. To insert and image, place the cursor in the desired location and press this button. A popup dialog displays that lets you enter in the Image URL and other information about how the image will display.

Cleanup Messy Code. This button allows you to clean up HTML code, perhaps from HTML text that you copied in from another source.

Insert Embedded Media. To insert embedded media (such as Flash), place the cursor at the desired location and press this button. A popup dialog will display that allows you to enter the Type, File or URL, and other information about the media.

Insert horizontal line.

Direction Left to Right and Direction Right to Left. These buttons allow you to enter or change the text direction, for example for languages that read right to left.

Fourth Row.

Cut, Copy, Paste, Paste as Plain Text, Paste from Word. Often when copying and pasting text from other sources, such as PDF files, Word documents, or web pages, the selected text contains formatting information that is not needed or wanted. Using the Paste as Plain Text will strip out all formatting from the text. Paste as Word tries to preserve some of the formatting while stripping out unnecessary formatting.